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    <i>Law & Order True Crime</i> Is a Staid, Tedious Affair

    The NBC franchise delves into history with <em>The Menendez Murders </em>but misses what makes the genre so compelling.
    by Sophie Gilbert Sep 26, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: NBC

    Affluenza is an opportune subject in 2017. So is the impact of fiercely controlling fathers on unexceptional and needy sons, who seek to fill their gaping emotional voids with shiny objects. Law &Order True Crime, the latest spinoff of the steadfast NBC procedural franchise, could be the perfect union of subject and subtext: a reexamination of a case that shocked America in 1989, when the Menendez brothers, two wealthy Beverly Hills teenagers, murdered their parents in what seemed like a transparent bid to get their hands on the family millions.

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